(September 23, 2010) Fox News reported a claim by a United States Air Force officer who saw an unidentified flying object near his base on March 16, 1967. The officer, Captain Robert Salas, said that the UFO shut down nuclear missiles kept at the Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana (pictured above).
Salas is one of seven people who on Monday will reveal what they know about links between UFOs and nuclear missiles. The seven are made of six Air Force officers and a former enlisted man. Salas himself was a US Air Force nuclear launch officer who on Monday will host an event with UFO author Robert Hastings. Salas and Hastings hope to bring to light testimony given by more than 120 former or retired military personnel some of which were as recent as 2003.
Salas said that he believes the UFOs are not from Earth and that they are interested in the United States' nuclear weapons. Another officer, Colonel Charles Halt, witnessed a disc-shaped UFO direct a beam of light at his base at the Royal Air Force Bentwaters in England. He added that he heard radio reports of the UFO landing in the base's nuclear storage area. Halt accused both the United States and the United Kingdom of obfuscating the significance of UFO sightings near nuclear storage facilities.
Halt and the others plan to disseminate declassified United States government documents that they say will substantiate their claims regarding UFO activity at nuclear sites.